Power-converter



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J. F. WINGI-IELL.

POWER UONVERTER.

No. 270,621. Patented Jan.16,1883.,

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J. F. WINGHELL.

POWER CONVERTER.

No. 270,621. Patented Jan.16,1883.

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POWER-CONVERTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,621, dated January 16, 183,

Application filed June 12, 1882. (N0 model.) I

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES F. WINCHELL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Springfield, in the county of Clarke and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Power-Converters; and I do hereby declare that thefollowingis a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a plan view. Figs. 3, 4, 5, and (i are detail views.

This invention has relation to devices for converting reciprocating into rotary motion, and especially to converting-motors designed to be employed in connection with windmills.

The invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement, in connection with the laterally-flanged clutch-wheel, of the clutchpawls pivoted to gravitating arms and provided with connecting-rods extending to the windmill rod or lever connectedthereto; in the construction and novel arrangement of the biting-shoulders of the laterally-notched pawl and the pivot-bearing between said shoulders; and in the combination, with the weighted arms, pivoted clutch-pawls, and flanged clutchwheel, of the angle-lever pivoted by one end to a stationary bearing, and having connections extending to the reciprocating rod of a windmill, to the clutch-pawls, and to the mechanism operating a pump, all as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter Av ed at b and c, the weight, however, in the case of the arm K being on the opposite side of the shaft, while that of the arm L is on the same side with the arm. Each arm is provided with a clutch-pawl, P, which is pivoted thereto at d. The clutch-pawl is formed with a lateral notch or clutch-hearing, 0, having the oblique walls g and angular biting-edges h, said walls and biting-edges being on opposite sides of the pivot d. Each pawl is also provided with an outwardly-turned arm, k, to which is pivoted a connecting-rod, l, the upper end of which is pivoted to the reciprocating rod of a windmill or to a lever, N, which is pivoted to a stationary hearing at m and connected to such reciprocating rod. The latter arrangement is preferred, because it enables the movement of the windmill to be further utilized. For this purpose the lever N is formed with an arm, at, extending upward or downward from its pivotal port-ion p, and connected by means of a rod, 1, to the pump-lever B. By means of the angle-lever the reciprocating motion of the windmill-rod is not only utilized to run the converting-motor, but also to operate the pump.

A second shaft, s, is arranged in bearings t of the frame of the converting-motor, and carries a pinion, c, which engages the cogwheel G. To the end of this shaft a bandwheel, chain-wheel, or sprocket-wheel may be secured, as indicated at Z.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In a machine for converting reciprocating into rotary motion, the combination, with the laterally-flanged clutch-wheel and the shaft E, to which it is secured, ot' the gravitating arms K and L, pivoted on said shaft, the clutch-pawls P, pivoted to said arms, and the rods I, pivoted to arms is of said clutchp'awls, substantially as specified.

2. In a machine for converting reciprocating into rotary motion, the clutch-pawl P, hav-' ing the lateral notch 6 between inclined clutchshoulders g, the pivot 01 between said shoul: ders, and the outwardly-extended arm 7c, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the shaft E, the

weighted armsLK, pivotedthereomthe fiange- In testimony that I claim the above I have 10 wheel H, secured thereto,andthe clntch-pawls hereunto subscribed my name in the presence P, having the outwardly-extended arms k, of two witnesses. pivoted to said weighted arms, of the angle- 5 lever N, pivoted by one end to a stationary JAMES F. \VINUHELL.

bearing, and having connections extending to the reciprocating rod of a. windmill, to the Vitnesses: clutch-pawls, and to the pumping-lever, sub- I THEO. MUNGEN, stantially as specified. PHILIP G. M ASI. 

